ERC Starting Grant · 2020
The Role of Memory for Economic Belief Formation
Beliefs and expectations play a major role in economic analysis. In the proposed research, I seek to advance our empirical understanding of belief and expectation formation processes by incorporating memory patterns. Intuitively, memory plays a crucial role in the process of belief formation and the evolution of belief distortions, as large parts of the information used when forming beliefs is retrieved from memory. While recent theoretical work has begun to recognize the important role of memory for belief formation, empirical research is virtually non-existent. Accordingly, this research sets out to study the role of memory for belief formation in a set of key domains of behavioral…
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